"On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there was once a colonial settlement called the Old Drift. Here begins the epic story of a small African nation told by a mysterious swarm that calls itself man's greatest nemesis. The take? A playful panorama of history, fairy tale, romance, and science fiction. The moral? To err is human. In 1904, in the smoky room at the hotel across the river, an Old Drifter named...